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Writer and cultural critic Mark Dery, who has the unique role of being the only white person we see in the entire exhibition, coined the term “Afrofuturism” in the introduction to a series of interviews with Samuel R.

It is a kaleidoscope that offers multiple readings depending on the viewer’s perspective. Black livingness, as Black Canadian scholar Katherine McKittrick has called it, is an Afrofuturist endeavor.Īfrofuturism is difficult to define, and for me, this is actually one of its pleasures. I have often asked myself: Why this particular association? And I have come to realize that it is because Black humanity is itself a phoenix: No matter how many times colonizers and white supremacists have tried to destroy our communities, languages, and interior worlds, we have been resilient. Every time the museum comes into view while walking down 14th Street NW, I have the thought that it is like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Known by many as the “Blacksonian,” the museum itself, located in the heart of Washington, D.C., is a significant work of Afrofuturist art, politics, design, and engineering, with its structure mirroring a Yoruba-design crown that looks ready for liftoff. This is not the first time a visitor to the NMAAHC is confronted with the feeling of boarding a spaceship. This article appears in the Summer 2023 print issue of FP. Erik Carter illustration for Foreign Policy Paul Scharre, Stanley McChrystal, Alondra Nelson, and more thinkers on the dawn of a new age in geopolitics. The on-image text reads: The Scramble for AI.

I didn’t start touching my profit until about two years in,” Dupart shares.A Foreign Policy magazine cover illustration shows a glowing AI projection figure emerging from a pile of technological machinery and semiconductors. I had some financial backing and put that money into the business.

But because I was a full-time hairstylist. “The first month of business I didn’t make anything. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will So I’m always overly prepared,” she said. I got a warehouse that was 6,000-square-feet when I only needed 2,000-square-feet, and then we grew into it. Once you have that massively, then you can move into those bigger stores,” Dupart tells The Breakfast Club. We have the opportunity to go into big stores, but right now we’re in OTC stores, which are kind of the mom and pop stores. I’m 36 now and I’ve been able to see a few million dollars off of being very persistent, passionate, creative, and going against what everyone said I couldn’t do,” she said. “I’m not college educated, but look how far I’ve come.

Persistence and patience will get you far Keep reading from some great insight from the beauty mogul. The brand, which boasts celebrity endorsements from Trina, Angela Yee and Monica, has close to 200,000 followers on Instagram and a loyal customer base that swears by the brand’s products, such as the Miracle Drops.ĭupart, who got her start as a hairdresser, recently sat down with The Breakfast Clubto talk all things entrepreneurship, beauty and social media. If you’ve ever stumbled, intentionally or otherwise, on your Instagram explore page chances are you’ve heard of Jesseca Dupart or her brand Kaleidoscope Hair.
